The unlikely trio - a professor of history, a rabble-rousing filmmaker and a risk analyst and self-described flaneur - were as much outliers, as was Donald Trump, before he decimated Hillary Clinton in the polls to become the 45th President of the United States earlier this week.

Nate Silver, however, got it wrong. Very wrong.

Silver, who astoundingly predicted correctly the results of all 50 states during Barack Obama's re-election campaign of 2012, is now being seen as the face of everything that's wrong with America's pollsters and data journalists, and their absolute disconnect with the populace.

In an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday, Lichtman, a historian at American University in Washington said, "I said that in Donald Trump, we may have a candidate who is so outside the bounds of history that he could break the patterns of history."

It was a statement pretty much everyone ignored.

Michael Moore, the outspoken, often rabid, critic of the GOP, called it for Trump almost five months ago.

"I believe Trump is going to focus much of his attention on the four blue states in the rustbelt of the upper Great Lakes – Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Four traditionally Democratic states – but each of them have elected a Republican governor since 2010," the director of the Academy Award winning documentary, "Bowling for Columbine" wrote in an essay published on his website.

Lest we forget, on Election Day, all four "Rust Belt" states did exactly that.

Taleb, the author of the best-selling work "Black Swan," which describes unexpected, unprecedented, cataclysmic events that overturn established ways of thinking, based his prediction on exactly that.

Taleb has also said a Trump presidency wasn’t going to be as cataclysmic as most people believe it will be.

Taleb, Lichtman and Moore – a disparate group, but one that understood, better than most, the yawning social divide in the US, and the growing sense of marginalization among large swathes of its citizens. They called it. But the problem was, no one took heed.